Colonel Aquila Hall Chapter, Maryland SAR

Colonel Aquila Hall Chapter

Chartered September 10, 1920

President - William P. Smithson

Vice President - David W. Hoover

Secretary - J. Andrew Calwell

Treasurer - David W. Hoover

Registrar - Donald A. Howard

Chancellor - Donald E. Brand, Esq.

Historian - Henry C. Peden, Jr.

Genealogist - Christopher T. Smithson

Chapter Chairman

C.A.R. Chairman - Christopher T. Smithson

Eagle Scout Chairman - Donald A. Howard

Knight Essay Chairman - Christopher T. Smithson

Membership Chairman - Donald A. Howard

Orations Chairman - Christopher T. Smithson

The Colonel Aquila Hall Chapter is sponsoring the newly organizing Bush Declaration Society, Children of the American Revolution located in Harford County, Maryland. If interested in joining the Bush Declaration Society CAR which is for both boys and girls under the age of 22. Please click on the link to the Bush Declaration Society, CAR website for contact information.

History of the Colonel Aquila Hall Chapter

The Colonel Aquila Hall Chapter was the first chapter organized in the Maryland Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, mainly through the efforts of the Honorable James H. Preston, Mayor of Baltimore and a native of Harford County. Chartered on September 10, 1920, the Charter Members were:

William F. Anderson

William Wiley Hopkins

George S. Robertson

Robert Harris Archer Jr.

Worthington Hopkins

John Andrew Robinson

Samuel Webster Bradford

James Davis Iglehart

Thomas Hall Robinson

Gilman L. Camp

Walter T. Jackson

John Charles Rutledge

Lawson Cooley

Edmund Grove Kurtz

Alfred Active Rogers

Francis B. Culver

Charles F.Lamb

Purnell Fletcher Sappington

Richard Dallam

John L. G. Lee

Roland H. Stiteler

Alexander M. Fulford

William Miles Maloy

J. S. M. Streett

William Webster Finney

Walter Ray McComas

G. S. Thomas

Aristides Smith Goldsborough

William B. Nelson

Armfield Franklin VanBibber

Thomas White Hall

James Harry Preston

Henry Ashton Whitaker

Harry Hunt Hammill

Walter Wilks Preston

Stevenson Archer Williams

George C. Hopkins

Harry L. Reeder
George W. Richardson

Henry Stuart Willis

In 1975, Col. James F. McClanahan reorganized the chapter and it was returned to the active rolls of the Maryland Society at the Red Fox Restaurant in Bel Air on November 6, 1976.

Colonel Aquila Hall Chapter Presidents

Hon. James Harry Preston

Rev. Augustus Ernest Succop, III

James Frederick McClanahan, Sr.

Anthony Duane Andrews

John Dallam Worthington, III

John Alden Richardson

Thomas Carroll Brown, Esq.

Lynn Dale Shreffler

Henry Clint Peden, Jr.
Holden Ringwalt Houghton

James Rodger Hixon
Christopher Thomas Smithson

Wilford Anderson Hall Council, III

John Andrew Calwell

Hon. William Orville Carr

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